Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile city, strikers had lost some $9,600,000 in wages, at the staggering rate of $600,000 a week. Mill securities had fallen to purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might last until winter. If the strikers could find fuel, it might last until another summer, indefinitely...
...intraparty Issue, a cross issue. Loudly as California's Johnson may roar against the Power Trust, there are other Republicans, for example Utah's Smoot, equally effective in its defense. Among Democrats, the same split exists. Smith Democrats, if their chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping into fields, or streams, ideal for privateering...
Caleb Powers, then Secretary of State of Kentucky, was sentenced to death. An underling of the State Auditor was sentenced to life imprisonment. Powers was pardoned, as was the third and foremost figure on the Republican side of the case, whose death last week at 76 from natural causes brought the Goebel murder back in the news...
...what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
Citizens of the U. S. could only admit, shamefacedly, that prisoners in many U. S. city jails are shamefully underfed by profiteering keepers. For example, such a state of affairs was exposed, last year, in the "Model City," Cleveland...